News about something fatal
Jayden Velazquez-Garcia, 19, of Plainfield, was identified as the man who died from the shooting on Wednesday, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.
Whiteside County jury on Friday convicts Steven W. Coleman of murder, four arson-related charges in 2020 Sterling apartment fire that left three dead.
Steven W. Coleman is charged with arson and six counts of first-degree murder in the fire that killed two children and a woman at Western Apartments.
A third man has been taken into custody by the Joliet Police Department in the fatal 2021 shooting of 18-year-old Jwaun Jones.
A multi-vehicle crash on the west side of Joliet Wednesday evening resulted in one person being killed. Police responded to the scene around 6:30 p.m. on West Jefferson and Airport Drive, according to Joliet police.
Alan E. Thompson Jr., 52, pleaded guilty to aggravated driving under the influence in connection with the collision that killed Timothy D. Gonigam, president of Astec Mobile Screens, in 2021.
A defense attorney argued a Shorewood man and his girlfriend were at the mercy of a Joliet mass shooting suspect, who was "singing songs about killing people." The Shorewood man faces charges linked to two random shootings.
Joliet police learned the man was just released from the Will County Detention Center
A 69-year-old Sandwich woman died following a single-vehicle rollover crash near Millington in La Salle County.
More than 20 spent shell casings were discovered at the scene of where Tenzell Terry, 25, of Joliet, was gunned down in Joliet.
A 2014 vehicle driven by Angelo Lujano-Pagliuca, 25, left the roadway and struck a tree, police said. Troopers responded to the incident about 2 a.m. on Sunday.
Charges filed in each of two fatal Whiteside County crashes have been dismissed after the Whiteside County State's Attorney’s Office made motions saying more investigation is needed in each case.
Hector Castillo, 75, died as a “result of a motor vehicle, pedestrian crash” in Joliet, according to a statement on Sunday from Will County Coroner Laurie Summers’ Office.
Vehicle was traveling west on West Henry Road toward Lowell Park Road before overturning, sheriff says.
Authorities have not yet released the name of the teenager who died in the crash Wednesday night.
At around 7:25 p.m. on Tuesday, the Bolingbrook Police Department responded to the 100 block of South Bolingbrook Drive for a report of a person who had been stabbed.
The shooting that led to the death of a Bolingbrook man on Thursday had "involved acquaintances and is not a random act," police officials said.
The Kenworth semi-tractor was westbound on Pines Road, pulling a flatbed trailer with wood pallets, when the crash occurred.
Melissa Aud-Headlee, 35, and mother of three children, was killed in Saturday - the day before Mother's Day - in front of her Joliet home by her estranged husband Michael “Mikey” Aud-Headlee, 32, of Carmi.
A 74-year-old woman has been identified as the driver of a car that struck and killed a Downers Grove woman on Ogden Avenue Thursday night, authorities said.
A 65-year-old woman was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Downers Grove Thursday night on the 600 block of Ogden Avenue.
A Batavia woman has been identified as the driver in a fatal 2023 accident on a Roosevelt Road.
Single-vehicle crash was in the 1000 block of North Freeport Road, north of Polo.
A 29-year-old Cortland woman died of her injuries Thursday, a day after a motorcycle crash in Aurora.
An 18-year-old driver from Maple Park was killed Tuesday morning after her SUV was struck by a semi truck at Route 47 and Waubonsee Drive in Sugar Grove.
One of the grants will allow the Kane County Coroner to hire a community liaison to connect residents with the county’s opioid reduction efforts.
A change-of-plea hearing for a 22-year-old Dixon man charged in the deaths of two Dixon 14-year-olds, which was scheduled to take place Tuesday, did not go off as planned because of some procedural issues.
The traffic charges against the teen driver of a pickup truck that investigators said failed to stop at an intersection on March 28, resulting in the deaths of his three teen passengers, have been dismissed for now.
A St. Charles man was killed in a head-on crash with a utility pole near the intersection of Route 64 and Anderson Road on Friday. April 12.
Agustin Martinez-Gallegos, 23, has been identified as the man who died after falling down an elevator shaft at a Joliet building.
A Geneva woman has died from injuries she suffered in a Thursday, April 4, crash in Sugar Grove Township.
Cause and origin of the March 31 fire are under investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s Office.
Dodrill was described as a lover of all sports, but specifically bowling, in an obituary by Unger Horner Funeral Home.
Whiteside County authorities have released the name of a man killed Wednesday morning when the tractor he was driving was hit by a semitractor-trailer on Route 40.
One person was killed Wednesday morning when the tractor that he was driving was hit by a semitractor-trailer on Route 40 at the intersection of Route 172/Star Road south of Rock Falls, according to a news release from Whiteside County Sheriff John Booker.
Rochelle Fire Department was dispatched at 6:32 p.m. Sunday in response to smoke coming from a basement unit on the southeast corner of the building.
Hundred of mourners packed the Tampico Community Center gymnasium Sunday night for a vigil for three teens who were killed Thursday in a collision just outside the village.
A car crash on Interstate 88 near Oak Brook left one driver dead early Sunday morning, authorities said.
Participants are needed for a procession of vehicles from the church to the cemetery Thursday for one of the three Tampico teens killed last week in a traffic collision.
Funeral services are set for the three Tampico boys killed Thursday in a traffic collision outside the village.
Whiteside County Coroner Joseph McDonald released the names of the three teenagers killed Thursday in a collision with a semi at the intersection of Hahnaman and Luther Roads outside the village.
A 23-year-old Dixon man is scheduled to change his plea to reckless homicide a week after the third anniversary of the crash that killed two Dixon 14-year-olds.
An Aurora man has been charged in connection with the Jan. 13 shooting death of an Oswego woman.
The driver of a black Dodge Durango SUV, which was speeding at 110 miles an hour, died in a firey crash late Tuesday in Virgil Township.
After negotiating with the owners of properties along the 400 block of East Third Street downtown that were destroyed or damaged by a fatal fire on July 7, the city will pay $138,000 for four sites it plans to redevelop.
A 50-year-old Spring Grove man injured in an Elk Grove Village industrial fire Tuesday has died.
An 87-year-old Sterling man was killed Friday around 2:30 a.m. in a head-on collision on state Route 40 south of Buda, Bureau County officials said.
A 42-year-old Custer Park woman was charged Friday in Lee County Court in the hit-and-run death of a Rock Falls man, killed Dec. 4 near Walton as he was walking, Lee County Sheriff Clay Whelan said.
The 33-year-old woman whose body was found Sunday in the 1600 block of South Galena Avenue was from Rochelle, and formerly of Ashton, police and SVM archives show.
An autopsy will be conducted Tuesday to determine the cause of death of a woman whose body was found Sunday morning on the ground in the 1600 block of South Galena Avenue.